Conservation Optimism Summit

#OneLess is a positive approach to conservation that encourages our audiences to connect more directly with the ocean.  

It's a collaborative campaign, involving nine NGOs, that aims to stop the use of single-use plastic water bottles in London.

Plastic bottles are one of the most common items of marine litter, threatening the health of the ocean and marine wildlife. #OneLess is a positive statement of action, intended to convey optimism about our collective ability to reduce single-use plastic pollution in our ocean by promoting a culture of refillable drinking vessels.

Come and talk to members of the #OneLess team about how to get involved!

Risk Management and Travel Safety are an essential part of conservation and fieldwork. In this interactive session, Lloyd will teach the skills necessary to make sure your expedition is memorable for all the right reasons. Using his background as a former police officer, soldier, expedition leader and wilderness medic, Lloyd will teach some essential tricks of the trade which will help allow you to stay safe whilst working on your conservation project. 

Launch your eco-trips from baseline imortant to wildly IMPACTFUL!
When you bring people into the wild to experience animals and conservation using planning, know-how and intention, your eco-trips can create a shift for the better for your participants, projects and ultimately wildlife. The deeper and more connected, the more opportunity to align travelers with issues, animals, actions, solutions and a lifetime of dedication to the projects you are visiting. These four easy and enjoyable tips will kick your trip into life-changing mode. 
Inspiration awaits!
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A brief overview of cognitive linguistic research by Greenpeace and the Common Cause Foundation Australia into the language to use (and not use!) when communicating an ocean conservation message.

African wild dogs are one of Africa's most threatened carnivore species. They are an extremely wide-ranging species which puts them at particular risk from the negative effects of habitat loss and fragmentation.  It also means that having populations surviving outside of protected areas is likely to be key to the conservation of the species.
One such example is the wild dog population of Laikipia county in Kenya, where wild dogs live outside of protected areas and successfully coexist with local communities.  After being locally extirpated in the 1980s wild dogs naturally recolonised Laikipia in the early 2000s.  Laikipia is a very human-dominated landscape but since wild dogs returned to the area their population has grown to become one of the largest left in the world, with surprisingly low levels of conflict with local communities.  A real conservation success story.


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African Vultures population is plummeting at a devastating rate! This was affirmed in 2015 when the global threat status of six species were up listed by IUCN Red List to Critically Endangered. Which is an extinction alert!

Vultures play a crucial ecological role of cleaning up after death, this means they halt spread of diseases and keep the ecosystem clean- a service they dutifully perform without any credits. By so doing, vultures are universally detested as they are associated with death, drought and dirt. 

In the discussion, we first take a quiz and find out out our vulture personality match,  we familiarise ourselves with the six magnifient African vultures. Understand their complex web of threats, which include unintentional poisoning, belief based use and whats being done about them in Kenya, Botswana and Nigeria. Eventualy we explore how strategic communication can influence positive behaviour change and attitude towards vultures.

Understand vultures, be a vulture ambassador!

Keep Vultures Soaring!!
 

 


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Being a scientists and working in the field of wildlife conservation is a real challenge in Bolivia. By not being considered a real career and a very low local investment, we need to be really optimitic.

The Natural History Museum Alcide d'Orbigny is a local institution in Cochabamba, the heart of Bolivia, that has been working for wildlife conservation for the past 14 years.

With the help of a short video produced by young Bolivian filmmakers, and using images of our affiliated researchers we want to share our histories.

You are more than welcome to visit us and I will be happy to give you more information! 

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Tortoise and turtles have a unique way of engaging people and the Galapagos giant tortoises are one of the most popular animals at London Zoo. We will showcase how we use the amazing Galapagos giant tortoise, a true keystone species, to engage different audiences with conservation in the Galapagos Islands, here in the UK via our partnership with ZSL London Zoo and internationally through our partnership network and educational bilingual website ‘Discovering Galapagos’.

From engaging the local farming community in new research on potential tortoise-human conflicts to working with teachers, students and youth clubs to study tortoise migrations and their role in seed dispersal, we have many lessons to share for others looking to maximise their impact of conservation outreach and look forward to chatting with you soon!

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A new generation of trained biologists is urgently needed to study ecological processes in nature and apply lessons learned to conservation action. If today’s undergraduate and graduate students do not gain this important experience, where will the next generation of conservation professionals come from? This talk will highlight one initiative in the Peruvian Amazon that sets out to respond to this fundamental need.
With a 40-year research legacy, the Cocha Cashu Biological Station (CCBS) in Peru’s UNESCO Manu National Park is a tropical ecology field station of international renown and importance for understanding and preserving biodiversity. The CCBS provides unrivalled opportunities to study the processes of nature largely undisturbed by modern human impacts, serving as a reference landscape for understanding biodiversity and the ecological processes that support it.
San Diego Zoo Global Peru has been entrusted the responsibility of managing and operating the CCBS by the Peruvian Service for Protected Natural Areas. One of the mandates of our agreement is to help train the conservationists of the future, especially Peruvian students in the natural sciences. 
To this end, the Station’s signature capacity building program is our annual, three-month, boots-on-the-ground Tropical Ecology and Field Techniques Course. This course aims to provide Peruvian undergraduate and graduate students with the modern tools and theoretical basis on tropical ecology that are key to managing forests and protected areas in tropical lowlands. 

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This is a Prezi presentation for which I will need a projector, screen, table, cable to connect to laptop, speakers for video

During my first Not-So-Poster session, I would focus on describing the motivation of conservation of orangutans in Malaysia. As Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) has declined and downgraded to Critically Endangered, more protection of habitat and comprehensive rehabilitation would be necessary to protect this charismatic and endemic species. Efforts would require collaboration from wider perspective, from non- scientist to manager to researchers.

My youtube link to the presentation: https://youtu.be/UBIiF3JBvgc

If it possible, I would need a LCD screen/ projector/plasma screen to be connected to my laptop and a powerpoint source for my laptop for my presentation.   

Alice White presents a pop-up exhibition of her original paintings and drawings, together with a short slide-show and talk.
The speaker will describe how the artwork on show was created as a direct result of working with marine conservation scientists, and will discuss the tangible benefits that art/science collaborations can have for practitioners working within both fields. Using her own experience as an example, and the exhibition itself to illustrate the points being made, the artist will touch on the following topics:
-Why have an artist: The ways in which artists and their artwork can contribute to science research and practice.
-How to install an artist: Encouraging thinking about artists as a key part of the presentation and communication of scientific knowledge.
-When to use art: How creative reasoning techniques and visual research methods commonly used by artists can be useful to scientists.
-What will my artist do?: A call for better integration of local and international artists into current conservation practices, to become better contributors as well as observers.
-Assembly instructions: Artists can be seen as key social interventionists, spreading positive conservation messages to a more diverse audience. How and why it is important to tap into the creative networks.
Attendees will be encouraged to comment and ask questions as part of the session.
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Room Needs: (laptop and projector screen, together with all cables. Laser pointer. Table to put said equipment on. Walls suitable for hanging artwork PLEASE email me to discuss this in detail.) 

We will have examples of our work with artists, film makers, musicians, scientists and social scientists - exploring the potential for collaborations in understanding conservation conflicts.

A participatory space will be created to learn about North Sulawesi wildlife conservation successes and challenges based on our different programmes (Selamatkan Yaki, Tangkoko Conservation Education, Macaca NIgra Project, Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue and Education Centre). Participant engagement is intended to be maximised through creative hands-on presentation of materials. 
The messages of the intended session are planned to unfold against a bright and vibrant backdrop, a jungle-theme around a tree which will form the centre-point of the setting, a place where examples and exhibition style materials appear.

Our team will be present to present the materials and describe in full the various features of the set, including providing sufficient background information to the accompanied text within the hanging imagery/exhibit panels.

This session will present:
-          Images and exhibit panels (4 portrait panels, size: 1m50 X 1m) of collaborative conservation activities emerging from foliage and hanging from a tree, as well as art work representing cthe majestic yaki (macaques)
-          Accompanying information about each organisation’s activities, key successes and positive outcomes to be revealed by pulling at the images upon investigation.
-          A continuous display of videos (short documentary about the crested macaques) and clips about our different organisations
-          Background music and sounds of Sulawesi animals to aid in the sensory immersion
-          Several quizzes, games and booklets provided by the presenters throughout the day to make the session as interactive as possible with the public 
-          Audio-visual presentation of the traditional “kabasaran” and “maengket” dances, to further set the scene of the local Minahasan socio-cultural conditions.

We are moved to save the species and places that make us happy.

But we are becoming increasing disconnected from wildlife. We look at our smartphones 60 times a day, and can name more Pokémon species than real ones. 

But what if instead, digital technology could re-connect us to nature. What if our smartphones could bring us closer to the species and places that we care about? What if wildlife made us laugh on a daily basis?

Come and discover how to bring conservation into the digital age. How our newest technology can help protect our oldest living wonders. And how we can save wildlife by making people happy.

Conservation news clips is a way of storytelling by conservationists through making short video clips of either their study or a conservation project they manage. The aim of the activity is to encourage conservation practitioners and researchers to film their daily activities to easily communicate their findings to the broader community.
By using a short film of the project I manage as a case study. I will be presenting successes and challenges as an early career conservationist in the field in a very remote corner of my country where I work with my fellow youth in a bid to mitigate environmental challenges. I believe for conservationists to reach the wider community and personnel from other disciplines we need to use the right media and me from experience the use of film not only encourages them to share the story but it also introduces them to diversity in pouring wildlife that they may not have a chance to see anywhere else.

The activity will involve a 4 minutes’ presentation of what is news clip. It will be followed by a 6 minutes film that I did for my project. then 10 minutes of why it’s important for conservation practitioners to film their work in the field and how they can do it. And allow for any Q and A session.
  


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NatureWatch is a short online wildlife documentary series, produced by students from the University of Exeter and Falmouth University. Usually, we showcase Cornish wildlife, but in our interactive session we invite you to channel your inner Attenborough and share your thoughts, ideas and experiences relating to Conservation Optimism. We will film presenters, and share the film on our social media to add to the #ConservationOptimism movement. We will also be showing our recent work, including our latest episode, and there will be other activities relating to photography and film for you to try out. If you want to share your stories, or just want to find out more, drop by!
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